The Ecologist articles from March 1997

The Ecologist archives from March 1997

MIcro-credit: band-aid or wound?(Editorial)
March 1, 1997... A global campaign to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families receive credit for self-employment by the year 2005 was launched at a three-day Microcredit Summit in Washington, DC, in February this year. Organised by RESULTS...

Environmental racism: the US nuclear industry and Native Americans.(Editorial)
March 1, 1997... For decades, the United States has mined Native American lands for uranium and has tested nuclear weapons on them. Some 75 per cent of the country's uranium reserves lie under native lands - lands once considered so worthless that the...

Scientific uncertainties & technical deficiencies: underground burial of nuclear wastes.(Editorial)
March 1, 1997... Nuclear power produces nuclear waste. Britain was one of the first countries to generate nuclear power and has one of the largest nuclear waste stockpiles in the world. In the 1970s, a Royal Commission headed by a Director of the British Atomic...

Some consequences of cheap trees and cheap talk: pulp mills and logging in Northern Alberta.
March 1, 1997... Most visitors to Athabasca, a small town of just 2,000 people in the Canadian province of Alberta, perceive the countryside around it as wilderness or relatively unspoiled nature. Like the rest of the northern half of the province, the region...

Development as colonialism.
March 1, 1997... It is customary to trace the origin of the idea of development to a statement made by US President Harry Truman in 1949, who, in his inauguration speech before Congress, drew the attention of his audience to conditions in poorer countries and...

The True State of the Planet.
March 1, 1997... Attacks on green romanticism and environmental pessimism have become weapons of the anti-environmental backlash. Indeed, both liberal and libertarian pundits, not to mention some of the more aggressive corporate public relations departments,...

A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism.
March 1, 1997... Attacks on green romanticism and environmental pessimism have become weapons of the anti-environmental backlash. Indeed, both liberal and libertarian pundits, not to mention some of the more aggressive corporate public relations departments,...

The Last Great Forest: Japanese Multinationals and Alberta's Northern Forests.
March 1, 1997... Local/global issues lie at the heart of contemporary analyses of environmental issues, analyses which frequently focus on regional economic, political, cultural and scientific concerns. A thriving avenue for research into these issues is...

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Conquest.
March 1, 1997... Imperial Leather is another intervention in the debates on the culture of imperialism that have become increasingly prevalent in the academic disciplines of postcolonial studies and cultural studies since the 1978 publication of Edward Said's...

The Ethical Investor.
March 1, 1997... Money is the linchpin of modern economic systems and central to the way we live. Charles Dickens described bank notes and coins as the little screws of existence. And when money talks, it talks loudly. It is not easy to sidestep the prism of...

New Money for Healthy Communities.
March 1, 1997... Money is the linchpin of modern economic systems and central to the way we live. Charles Dickens described bank notes and coins as the little screws of existence. And when money talks, it talks loudly. It is not easy to sidestep the prism of...

Low Impact Development: Planning and People in a Sustainable Countryside.
March 1, 1997... Do not be deceived by a slim format and unassertive title into supposing that this book is a slight work. It is a truly massive one. It tackles a huge and ageless subject - the search for a proper relationship between town and country. The...

The First Industrial Women.
March 1, 1997... The last 20 years has seen the rise of the "flexible" worker on a global scale as the patterns of work and of employment for men and women in forms established by the first industrial revolution have begun to disintegrate. The rise of...

Homeworkers in Global Perspective.
March 1, 1997... The last 20 years has seen the rise of the "flexible" worker on a global scale as the patterns of work and of employment for men and women in forms established by the first industrial revolution have begun to disintegrate. The rise of...